American Express Membership Rewards - paying for membership rewards program?

Hi. Does anyone know if Amex will let me purchase the membership rewards program for my corporate card - paying with another amex card? I am not allowed to put anything other than business expenses on the corporate card due to the way our expense reporting is done, but I will be racking up a considerable amount of charges and wonder if Amex will allow it so that I can earn the points.

When linked to another MR account (e.g. my Platinum card) the linkage fee goes onto the other card. I'm not sure if you can do it otherwise.

Are you sure that your company allows you to earn MR points? Not all do. I'm sure that if they do they have a way for dealing with the situation. Have you asked a coworker how they deal with it?

What's the way to link it to another account? Could I link it to my Delta Amex somehow and earn Delta miles?

I called Amex and they said the card was eligible for membership rewards - but that was all I asked. I haven't found the number at corporate to call yet. It's a huge company. I asked a coworker who travels like I do (there aren't too many of us in my department and I'm really new) - she didn't know.

Just be mindful that once you do link the cards, you're going to get hit with an additional annual fee (mine is $75). I've gone through several nightmare ordeals regarding this and no one was ever really able to tell me why. All I would be told was "The system does it." I eventually got things settled through the Exec. Office, but I literally spent hours trying to get this sorted out. In my letter to the Exec. Office I actually laid out the time spent and what my billable rate would be, which they seemed to understand.

I'm a forensic accountant by trade and I could not make any sense of the 20 or so debited/credited fee line items on my statement. What complicates things further is upgrading or downgrading the personal card that the corporate card is linked to. My advice would be if you plan on upgrading or downgrading, do it prior to linking. Also, keep an eye out for Membership Rewards and other fees, their system is total crap.

Definitely sign up for MR if your company allows you. I did a quick cost/benefit analysis and figured that if I spend more than $3750, I would break even. I'm sure if you travel that it will also be worth it for you.

You cannot link it to a SkyMiles card, but you can convert MR point to SkyMiles.

There is a fee for linking it to another account, and my corp card was $75 as well. I'm not sure what the "nighmare ordeal" you went through was, unless it was to beat them down until they agreed to waive the fee that they clearly document in the T&C of the program. Even with the fee I've found that the MR program was worthwhile for my spending and redemption pattern.

You cannot link it to a SkyMiles card, but you can convert MR point to SkyMiles.

There is a fee for linking it to another account, and my corp card was $75 as well. I'm not sure what the "nighmare ordeal" you went through was, unless it was to beat them down until they agreed to waive the fee that they clearly document in the T&C of the program. Even with the fee I've found that the MR program was worthwhile for my spending and redemption pattern.

The "nightmare ordeal" was the many, many line item MR fee charges and then credits over and over again for different amounts. I stated this in my post, along with my assumed reason why, which was posted as a warning to the OP.

As far as the fee being a clearly documented T&C of the program, the MR linking fee was actually a documented perk of having a linked Platinum card, as I originally did at the time. Without a Platinum card, it was originally $35 annually rather than $75. As we all know, T&C's are subject to change whenever, as they did, but that wasn't really what I was posting about.

I also didn't "beat" anyone down to get them to waive a fee, the numerous calls I made to customer service were originally made in an attempt to get them to set the fee at what it should be, rather than whatever convoluted number their system had mistakenly calculated.

I also didn't "beat" anyone down to get them to waive a fee, the numerous calls I made to customer service were originally made in an attempt to get them to set the fee at what it should be, rather than whatever convoluted number their system had mistakenly calculated.

Gotcha...makes sense now.